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Read the Bible!

1/10/2017

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It's a new year. It's a perfect time to recommit yourself to bathing every day in God's Word!

Instead of hopping on Facebook every spare moment, why not read a chapter of Scripture when you sit down by yourself?

Quite a number of CNCFers are joining me this year in doing a year-long reading plan called "Reading God's Story." It's kind of a combination of a chronological reading plan and a topical reading plan that gets you through the whole Bible in 365 days. The basic structure is chronological: you read the Bible in the order in which it was written. But the creator of the plan mixes in passages that relate to whatever event is happening in that day's reading.

For example, after reading the account of the Flood in Genesis 8 and 9, the plan has you read this Psalm on the same day:

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The Importance of a Clean Conscience

1/9/2017

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I've been preaching through 1 John at CNCF on Tuesday nights this year. We're about halfway through! 1 John can be a difficult book to understand. To do so requires that you be spiritually minded, but I am so earthly minded. One of the Apostle John's refrains is the importance of having a clean conscience before God. What does that mean? It means seeking to obey God in everything all the time. It means never silencing or ignoring your conscience when it tells you no. And it means keeping short accounts with God by frequently and fully confessing your sins to Him—without reservation. A clean conscience helps sustain the Christian's real, ongoing, practical peace with God.

The opposite of a clean conscience is a defiled conscience which corrupts your ability to be a useful Christian. Here's one commentator on the importance of a clean conscience:

Why is it that we see so many joyless, cheerless, one might almost say useless Christians? Why so many living and walking in such a way as to give the notion of godliness being all gloomy doubt, painful discipline, self-absorbing anxiety, listless musing? Awake! Arise! Shake off the chains that bind you. Go forth and in open day, under the open sky, to meet your God and Father, with your heart open to him, as his heart is open to you. Stand fast in the liberty with which Christ makes you free. Be upright. Be honest, frank, and fearless. Be yourselves; out and out yourselves. Dare to avow yourselves what you are, to God, to your own hearts, to all men. Be of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; yourselves true; receiving all truth, declaring all truth; everywhere, and always. Be honest, thoroughly honest, in the closet, in the family, in the market-place, in the parlour. Be transparently honest to your God and Father in heaven. Do but consent to treat him as he treats you. His whole heart, he himself wholly, is yours; all his love; all his fulness. Let your whole heart be his. Be you yourselves his; with no reserve; be altogether, now and for ever, his. (Robert S. Candlish, A Commentary on 1 John [1870; Banner of Truth, 1993], 328)
Is it your desire to keep a clean conscience before God? Do you have a daily peace with God which gives you confidence and makes you a truth-full light to those around you? Don't let a deadened conscience make you useless to God's kingdom.
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Spring 2017 Preview!

1/9/2017

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We've got exciting plans for 2017, and we hope you'll join us!
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Starting tomorrow (January 10) we'll be continuing in our preaching series through the book of 1 John. Join us every Tuesday as we worship together and hear from God's Word concerning what it looks like to truly follow after Christ.
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For the first half of the semester, we'll be studying the Fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22–23 in our men's and women's discipleship groups. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. What do these things mean, and what does it look like for us to bear these fruits?
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Join us for a panel discussion on Sunday, February 12 with Christian professors in the sciences, including 2 current IU professors and an IU alumnus. Bring your questions. You won't want to miss this!
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